The White House, FACT SHEET - The Biden-Harris Admn NSS (2022)

OCTOBER 12, 2022
FACT SHEET: The Biden-Harris

Administration's National Security Strategy
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President Biden's National Security Strategy outlines how the United States
will advance our vital interests and pursue a free, open, prosperous, and
secure world. We will leverage all elements of our national power to
outcompete our strategic competitors; tackle shared challenges; and shape
the rules of the road.
The Strategy is rooted in our national interests: to protect the security of the
American people, to expand economic opportunity, and to realize and defend
the democratic values at the heart of the American way of life. In pursuit of
these objectives, we will:
• Invest in the underlying sources and tools of American power and

influence;
• Build the strongest possible coalition of nations to enhance our

collective influence to shape the global strategic environment and to
solve shared challenges; and
• Modernize and strengthen our military so it is equipped for the era of

strategic competition.
COOPERATION IN THE AGE OF COMPETITION

In the early years of this decisive decade, the terms of geopolitical
competition will be set while the window of opportunity to deal with shared
challenges will narrow. We cannot compete successfully to shape the
international order unless we have an affirmative plan to tackle shared
challenges, and we cannot do that unless we recognize how heightened
competition affects cooperation and act accordingly.
Strategic Competition. The most pressing strategic challenge we face as we
pursue a free, open, prosperous, and secure world are from powers that layer
authoritarian governance with a revisionist foreign policy.
• We will effectively compete with the People's Republic of China, which is

the only competitor with both the intent and, increasingly, the capability
to reshape the international order, while constraining a dangerous
Russia.
• Strategic competition is global, but we will avoid the temptation to view

the world solely through a competitive lens, and engage countries on
their own terms.
Shared Challenges. While this competition is underway, people all over the
world are struggling to cope with the effects of shared challenges that cross
borders-whether it is climate change, food insecurity, communicable
diseases, or inflation. These shared challenges are not marginal issues that
are secondary to geopolitics. They are at the very core of national and
international security and must be treated as such.
• We are building the strongest and broadest coalition of nations to

enhance our collective capacity to solve these challenges and deliver for
the American people and those around the world.
• To preserve and increase international cooperation in an age of

competition, we will pursue a dual-track approach. On one track, we will
work with any country, including our competitors, willing to
constructively address shared challenges within the rules-based
international order and while working to strengthen international
institutions. On the other track, we will deepen cooperation with
democracies at the core of our coalition, creating a latticework of strong,
resilient, and mutually reinforcing relationships that prove democracies
can deliver for their people and the world.
INVESTING AT HOME
The Biden-Harris Administration has broken down the dividing line between
domestic and foreign policy because our strength at home and abroad are
inextricably linked. The challenges of our age, from strategic competition to
climate change, require us to make investments that sharpen our competitive
edge and bolster our resilience.
• Our democracy is at the core of who we are and is a continuous work in
progress. Our system of government enshrines the rule of law and strives
to protect the equality and dignity of all individuals. As we strive to live
up to our ideals, to reckon with and remedy our shortcomings, we will
inspire others around the world to do the same.
• We are complementing the innovative power of the private sector with a

modern industrial strategy that makes strategic public investments in
our workforce, strategic sectors, and supply chains, especially in critical
and emerging technologies.
• A powerful U.S. military helps advance and safeguard vital U.S. national
interests by backstopping diplomacy, confronting aggression, deterring
conflict, projecting strength, and protecting the American people and
their economic interests. We are modernizing our military, pursuing
advanced technologies, and investing in our defense workforce to best
position America to defend our homeland, our allies, partners, and
interests overseas, and our values across the globe.
OUR ENDURING LEADERSHIP

The United States will continue to lead with strength and purpose,
leveraging our national advantages and the power of our alliances and
partnerships. We have a tradition of transforming both domestic and foreign
challenges into opportunities to spur reform and rejuvenation at home. The
idea that we should compete with major autocratic powers to shape the
international order enjoys broad support that is bipartisan at home and
deepening abroad.
• Our alliances and partnerships around the world are our most important
strategic asset that we will deepen and modernize for the benefit of our
national security.
• We place a premium on growing the connective tissue on technology,

trade and security between our democratic allies and partners in the
Indo-Pacific and Europe because we recognize that they are mutually
reinforcing and the fates of the two regions are intertwined.
• We are charting new economic arrangements to deepen economic

engagements with our partners and shaping the rules of the road to level
the playing field and enable American workers and businesses-and
those of partners and allies around the world-to thrive.
• As we deepen our partnerships around the world, we will look for more
democracy, not less, to shape the future. We recognize that while
autocracy is at its core brittle, democracy's inherent capacity to
transparently course-correct enables resilience and progress.
AFFIRMATIVE ENGAGEMENT
The United States is a global power with global interests; we are stronger in
each region because of our engagement in the others. We are pursuing an
affirmative agenda to advance peace and security and to promote prosperity
. .
m every reg10n.
• As an Indo-Pacific power, the United States has a vital interest in

realizing a region that is open, interconnected, prosperous, secure, and
resilient. We are ambitious because we know that we and our allies and
partners hold a common vision for the region's future.
• With a relationship rooted in shared democratic values, common

interests, and historic ties, the transatlantic relationship is a vital
platform on which many other elements of our foreign policy are built.
To effectively pursue a common global agenda, we are broadening and
deepening the transatlantic bond.
• The Western Hemisphere directly impacts the United States more than
any other region so we will continue to revive and deepen those
partnerships to advance economic resilience, democratic stability, and
citizen security.
• A more integrated Middle East that empowers our allies and partners
will advance regional peace and prosperity, while reducing the resource
demands the region makes on the United States over the long term.
• In Africa, the dynamism, innovation, and demographic growth of the

region render it central to addressing complex global problems.
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OCTOBER 12, 2022

FACT SHEET: The Biden-Harris

Read the fe-11 strate8)!. here

• Invest in the underlying sources and tools of American power and

• Build the strongest possible coalition of nations to enhance our

• Modernize and strengthen our military so it is equipped for the era of

COOPERATION IN THE AGE OF COMPETITION

• We will effectively compete with the People's Republic of China, which is

• Strategic competition is global, but we will avoid the temptation to view

• We are building the strongest and broadest coalition of nations to

• To preserve and increase international cooperation in an age of

• We are complementing the innovative power of the private sector with a

OUR ENDURING LEADERSHIP

• We place a premium on growing the connective tissue on technology,

• We are charting new economic arrangements to deepen economic

• As an Indo-Pacific power, the United States has a vital interest in

• With a relationship rooted in shared democratic values, common

• In Africa, the dynamism, innovation, and demographic growth of the

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